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Atlus’ Brief History In Arcades
This evening (or morning, if you are in Japan), news broke out that Sega has purchased video game development company Atlus (well to be specific, the parent company that now goes by Index) for
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Looking At Taito’s History As They Turn 60
This past Friday (the 24th) was a date that was important to arcade and video game history but I did not realize that until I saw a message on Facebook from Taito. Here is
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The Brief Life of Arcade First Person Shooting Games
I hope that everyone is having a happy summer if you are in the Northern hemisphere and if in the Southern, an acceptable Winter. Arcade news has been relatively slow for the past little
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Retro Arcade Postmortems from GDC
(Image via g4tv.com) The Game Developers Conference is a great place for “postmortems”, or where a developer looks back at the development process for a title that they worked on. Insight is given as
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Book Review: Atari Inc. Business Is Fun
Well here is a rarity for us, a book review. It’s not that there aren’t any books about arcades out there, just that I have not got my hands on one until recently. The
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Editorial: No Everyone Doesn’t Agree On The Death Of The Arcade
It’s been a while since we’ve seen an article that directly looks into what they call the “death” of arcades but there is a pretty popular article that was published on The Verge today
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Past Glory: The Sega Super Circuit Amusement Setup
Taking a look back at one of Sega's interesting ideas from 1989, Sega Super Circuit
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Stanford University’s Collection of 80s Arcade Photographs; New Arcade History Blog
(Thanks to Kevin Williams of for the tip on the pictures) It’s been a little while since we’ve come across some photos archiving the arcade culture of the early 80s, one of the more
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Chuck E. Cheeses Celebrates 35 Years With a New Direction, Mascot Design
A history of Chuck E. Cheese's, including a look at their future plans. Click for more details!
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40 Years of Arcade Games – Part 2 (1990-2012)
So the 40 Years of Arcade Games post to celebrate Atari’s 40th anniversary had so much content on it that I had to split it up to keep the post from crashing. See Part
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